Mencken

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule.

Friday, November 27, 2009

Global Warming

Denial

Database altered

Climategate

How to Identify a Tyrant

"Usurpers always bring about or select troublous times to get passed, under cover of the public terror, destructive laws, which the people would never adopt in cold blood. The moment chosen is one of the surest means of distinguishing the work of the legislator from that of the tyrant" (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract, Book II, Ch. 10).